What's the buzz, tell me what's a happening

Yes I am a fan of Jesus Christ Superstar the rock opera even though it was written from the point of view of Judas & I regard a lot of the words as a blind person's desperate groping for truth.

Well I've put in the first really solid work as administrator for Brackets and Jam & it was really satisfying. It feels really good to be the catalyst for getting together a whole bunch of people who really want to make creative stuff happen. Also I've finally started putting in a bit of work on some of the friend's web sites I said I'd help with about a year ago. I was inspired after getting around to adding a page about why Jesus believed he was God & the son of God to my own web site which I meant to do ages ago. One I've been working on isn't up yet, the B&J site is one, which isn't anything to write home about yet, as well as OpenStage Productions. Now that I'm the Brackets and Jam administrator & have easy access to heaps of content for that site I should be able to get it really spruced up.

I've been to the Art Gallery of NSW, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the State Library & the Museum of Sydney for the exhibitions they have on as part of the Festival of Sydney. At the State Library Eye 4 Photography exhibition they have a dinner party at a friend of mine's mum's place in the exhibition. I've also been to the Homebush Sports Centre for The Lazy Kings which I caught with Daniel, Sole & Ben (whose mum was in the photo exhibition). I've been best friends with Daniel since I was four & it was good to catch up.

The weekend was good. Sunday Kel & Sharon who are missionaries in Lithuania were there, as well as Paul & Sylvia who just got married in June but haven't been in Australia for years (in Paul's case) or at all (in Sylvia's), & we went to lunch at Chao Praya with Anna, Anna, & Sally. I then went to catch up with Jack to see Francis Bacon's film about William S. Burroughs but Jack got a writing brainstorm & even though I showed up at the theatre an hour before it started it was booked out. Later Kel, Sharon & I went for tea at Anna & Bernd's place. All in all a wonderful day of catching up with old friends.

Shameless plug: The Chao Praya is a Thai restaurant at 33 Perouse Rd, The Spot, Randwick, ph. 9399 5509, around the corner from Gracepoint Christian Church, which has been the mainstay of reasonably priced lunches (from $7.90) for Gracepoint people for many years. It is a great restaurant with a friendly staff who provided a lot of free meals when we used to have a van ministry delivering food to the homeless people of Sydney. I figure they have blessed us so I might as well put in a plug for them.

There's been a lot of that lately (catching up with old friends). It seems that season that was begun early last year is continuing. With Paul & Sylvia in town (& now Kel & Sharon although they were only here briefly) there's a lot of it happening & I manage to wheedle my way in to most of it.

The other neat thing that happened was a friend of mine gave me a Nokia 5510 which has an MP3 player & an FM radio, so I'm back on the airwaves after being mobile-less for a while & now I shall have music where-ever I go.

Blessings,
Joe :-)